9/04/14 Rand Oliver and Tom Broadwell
9/11/14 Sally Beals and Gerry Eastabrooks
9/18/14 Mark Balsan and Pat Beckel
9/25/14 Erich Eggers and Shelley Fisher
If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.
8/14/14
President Vas Appalaneni opened the Centerville Rotary Club meeting at The Clubhouse at Yankee Trace with the Pledge of Allegiance. Member Harvey Smith gave the prayer and Ron Hollenbeck led the singing of God Bless America.
The guests at the meeting included only our speaker Dave Lapham.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Club president Vas Appalaneni said he had no announcements, but member Boyd Preston said fellow member Dick Hoback has the tickets for the Pancake Breakfast ready and will have them at the next meeting. Each member receives 25 tickets to sell at $6 a piece.
Member Carol Kennard also passed around printouts of the Bob Evans Community Fundraiser flyer, with our club's date being a Friday, Sept. 19. It's for dine-in and/or carry out. Fifteen percent of the sales goes to the club when you hand in the flyer with the receipt. This is for the Bob Evans at 7115 Far Hills in Centerville...It's good all day long...See you there.
Member Donald Overly said he had received a letter from one of our college scholarship recipients, Rachel Patton. It read: Dear Centerville Rotary Club,
Thank you so much for selecting me to receive your club's scholarship! I am truly grateful for your generosity. With your aid I am able to be one step closer to achieving my goals and dreams of becoming a veterinarian. This fall I will be attending The Ohio State University, and your scholarship has and will make this new transition easier. My path to become a vet begins shortly and I have been blessed with your club's help. I thank all of you, and I hope the rest of summer brings many blessings! Gratefully, Rachel Patton
Member Lee Hieronymous stood in for Erich Eggers as Sgt.-at-Arms, collecting Happy Bucks by standing behind each member and requesting a dollar's worth of Happiness news.
Brad Thorp used his Happy Buck time to note that as a member of the Historical Society, he has to dispense of some tickets to the Taste of Centerville to be held on Sept. 11. Only 250 people can be accommodated and the tickets are $25 per person. The event will be held at Benham's Grove. He has tickets available for sale at his office for those interested.
Ron Hollenbeck donated a generous $45 in Happy Bucks, $20 for a coat for Operation Warm and $25 for his 25th wedding anniversary.
Gary Kuntz contributed $10 to announce that the bank he works for, National Bank and Trust, and Peoples of Marietta, will become Peoples Community Bank by the end of the year. His bank has more than 20 branches and People's has 49, and they plan to make it a regional bank, he said.
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SPEAKER: Dave Lapham
Club member Ron Hollenbeck introduced our speaker Dave Lapham, a former offensive lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals (1974-1983) who is now entering his 29th year as the Bengals' radio color commentator.
Born in Melrose, Mass., he was a three-year letterman and captain of his basketball and football team in high school, where he was also captain in track. At Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications he lettered in three seasons and was a team captain.
As a color analyst for the Bengals he has been working with his partner Dan Hoard, who handles the play-by-play duties of the game. They host Bengals Weekly, a recap and preview TV show, and Lapham also works on Fox Sports Net's broadcasts of Big 12 Conference games. He is a panelist on Sports Rock, a local sports commentary program.
Lapham said he credits the Bengals success in getting into three playoffs in a row to the depth of their roster, and that depth, to their success in getting the right players in the yearly NFL draft.
The team looks at what they need to be successful as a team and sticks to that schematic plan in picking members from the draft, he said. They've been surprised to find that many of the players they were looking to get, didn't get picked right away, so they were able to get them for their team. Some may need to develop, but others are ready to be put in as starters, he said.
Their draft pick of center Russell Bodine worked out well as he was still there in the fourth round, he said. Bodine can bench press 225 pounds for 34 times in a row, he said.
Lapham said the game of football is violent by nature and the many injuries often knock star players out of the game, so they need backups. With the team's deep roster and talent, they have guys ready to step in and take over the various positions, he said.
When the Bengals got Andy Dalton and AJ Green in 2011, they had been higher up on their draft list, but stuck with them, getting them in later rounds and thus getting better value for their plan, he said. The same happened with other draft choices this year, he said.
The Bengals got great value when they got Darqueze Dennard from three cornerbacks available, Justin Gilbert, Kyle Fuller, and Dennard. They had put Dennard near the top of their list and were surprised when he slid to 24 while they waited for a defensive end. He had praises for AJ McCarron as their quarterback pick, and for their other picks (see below).
The Bengals have not won a playoff since 1991, he said, and they need to quit giving the ball away, fumbling to their opponents, and start taking the ball from their opponents if they hope to win their division this year. They need to play more of a ground game than throwing the ball so much, he said.
Their schedule this fall doesn't allow much room for error or slack, he said. November's schedule includes three consecutive away games, one in New Orleans, one in Houston and one in Tampa Bay, all hot weather areas. In December they will meet up with Pittsburgh, Denver and Cleveland teams.
The team has two new coordinators, Hue Jackson, the offensive coordinator, and Paul Guenther, the defensive coordinator, he said. Guenther has done fine in the pre-season, he said.
Club member Dan Stewart asked Lapham why there aren't more regular tackles, but big explosive hits during football games these days.
Lapham said he attributes the big hits to ESPN coverage of the games. "Everybody wants the big hit," he said. "It's selfish. They're looking for their individual acclaim." Lapham explained how Paul Brown had everybody learn the routine of tackling, heading at a 45 degree angle and getting your head in front of the guy you're tackling to bring him down. "There is a right way to do it," he said.
He said he was allowed to play with a concussion, but that he respects the rules today making players with severe concussions sit out until they are approved to go back through a doctor's permission. He said he feels lucky not to have suffered any major problems from head injuries during his time as a player.
The Bengals 2014 draft picks are listed below:
| Cincinnati Bengals 2014 Picks |
| RD |
PK(OVR) |
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SCHOOL |
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